Presidential Basics
The length of a presidential term in years.
What is four years?
The president’s power to reject or stop legislation.
What is the veto power?
The U.S. president who was a former Hollywood actor.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This specific chamber of Congress confirms presidential appointments.
What is the Senate?
After the vice president, this person is next in the presidential line of succession.
What is the Speaker of the House?
The minimum age required to be elected president of the United States.
What is 35 years old?
The President’s power to forgive someone for a federal crime.
What is a pardon?
The U.S. president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A formal agreement between nations that must be approved by the Senate.
What is a treaty?
The main purpose of the Executive Branch.
What is to enforce laws?
According to the Constitution, this is how long a president must have been a U.S. resident.
What is 14 years?
The title given to the president as head of the U.S. military.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
The third president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The process by which the House of Representatives formally charges a president with “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
What is impeachment?
A nation’s strategy and approach to dealing with other countries.
What is foreign policy?
This constitutional requirement prevents someone not born in the United States from becoming president.
What is a natural-born citizen?
An agreement made by the president with a foreign leader that does not require approval by Congress.
What is an executive agreement?
The youngest U.S. president ever elected to office.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The chamber of Congress that holds the trial after a president is impeached.
What is the Senate?
The date of Inauguration Day for a U.S. president.
What is January 20th?
The amendment that limits presidents to two terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This 1973 law requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops.
What is the War Powers Act?
The two U.S. presidents who served during World War II.
Who are Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman?
This amendment clarified what happens if a president cannot serve and how the vice president takes over.
What is the 25th Amendment?
This U.S. president is the only one to resign from office.
Who is Richard Nixon?